Alan Macfarlane quotes

Alan Macfarlane quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.”
-- Alan Macfarlane

Source : Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books

#Eye Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Air Quotes

“Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!”
“Order, thou eye of action.”
“If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”
“On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I like to look at the glass half full.”
“I'm blind without my glasses.”
“The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!”
“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”
“We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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